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Nordenbocker - Rickenbacker™ Neck Replacement
Description
Love your hi-gain Rickenbacker™ 4003 bridge pickup, but feel like the neck pickup is a little lo-gain? Here is your answer! The classic Nordstrand Big Single is now available in Rickenbacker size, a drop-in replacement that fits without marring your bass. It even uses your stock pickup screws. Louder and more aggressive tones can now be found in your neck pickup to keep up with the gutsy stock bridge pickup. As an added bonus, with this Big Single your bass won't have 60 cycle hum when you run bFirsthand experiences
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Discussed in The Rickenbacker Club Part Twelve in the TalkBass community
BlueTalon
AFAIK, Rickenbacker hasn't changed their practice of using two single coil pickups that are not RWRP. (Why? I don't know.) Your choices are: 1. do a RWRP mod on one of the pickups, ... ... more
Scarysharkface
What manufacturers are building aftermarket pickups that are voiced like the OEM pickups? I would love to have hum-cancellation of some sort, but I also don't want to sacrifice ... ... more
JackTheRipper
I put a Nordstrand Nordenbocker (Nordenbocker - Rickenbacker™ Neck Replacement) pickup in my JetGlo 4003. To me, it really gives the neck pickup more of the bridge pickup sound, but with more bass. I started running stereo within the last year and found that the stock RIC hi-gain neck pickup gets more of the sound that ... ... more
Discussed in Rickenbacker 4003 (2013) Mapleglo 4-String Bass w/Nordstrand pickup, Treble Bezel and OHSC in the TalkBass community
daveonbass
What we have here is a beautiful Rickenbacker 4003 4-Sting bass in near mint condition with some awesome mods, including a Nordstrand Nordenbacker neck pickup (original pickup ... ... more
Discussed in rickenbacker 4003/4001 bridge pickup construction question in the TalkBass community
Ric5
get one of these and make a small route in the body Nordenbocker - Rickenbacker™ Neck Replacement - Nordstrand Audio it is designed to be a neck pickup but you could make it work for the bridge. ... more
Discussed in NBD Rick 4003 Fireglo in the TalkBass community
Gilmourisgod
Is that the "RWRP" mod? A lot of people have done it on Rics, but from what I've read, it only works when both pups are dimed? I made a big improvement on mine just by fully shielding ... ... more
keith rosier
It is the RWRP mod. It works only when both are dimed---just like a Jazz Bass. I highly recommend it. It works for sure. In my experience, with my '77 4001, ----Carefully/slowly ... ... more
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